We use a large household panel for Japan (Keio Household Panel Survey) to estimate household-size economies in energy … sector. Between 2005 and 2010, for example, average household size in Japan decreased by about five percent. The resulting … consumption. The household-size economies we obtain are significant and sizable: the per-capita energy-related spending of a two …

Japan. The application indicates that household economies of scale in energy use are substantial and that the 5% decline in … average household size in Japan between 2005 and 2010 led to an economy-wide loss in household economies of scale amounting to … of household formation - despite sustained trends in many industrialized countries towards smaller household units with …

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the new EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA), the biggest bilateral deal … that both the EU and Japan have concluded so far. It employs a generalized variant of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model … reductions in the costs of NTBs. This approach yields long-run welfare effects for Japan of about 18 bn. USD per year (0.31% of …

the two World Wars. This paper focuses on Japan, which as a minor participant, was not directly affected by World War I … Japan was at the time). We investigate the role of NPIs in ameliorating the economic costs for the sector during the …

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures' different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan's opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures' different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan's opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …